We will be attending the 111th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA) in New York (February 15th-18th) . Visit our booth at the CAA book exhibit (#234, Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd Floor) and browse a selection of the newest Harvey Miller Publications.
Michael Wood on ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’
A contribution by Michael Wood At the heart of this book is a brilliant piece of detective work. One of the key conclusions is a painstaking reconstruction of the programmatic nature of the images. Reduced until now to hundreds of fragments in museum storerooms, the cycle of combat images with their Latin inscriptions has now…
Marjorie Trusted on ‘Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe (1600-1770)’
A contribution by Marjorie Trusted A former Senior Curator of sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the V&A, the University of Glasgow and Durham University. She has published widely in the field of sculpture. The baroque churches in Central Europe, especially in Bavaria, abound in spectacular sculptures. Anyone…
Amanda Luyster on ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’
A contribution by Amanda Luyster Bringing the Holy Land Home reveals the impact that art objects manufactured far away, particularly in the Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean, had on the medieval visual culture of England and western Europe. The exhibition takes as its starting point the iconic Chertsey tiles, on loan from the British Museum, including the…
Meredith Martin and Phil Chan on ‘Reimagining the Ballet des Porcelaines’
Meredith Martin (Photo © : Joshua Kwassman) “Inspired by a fairy tale in the same literary milieu as Beauty and the Beast (1740), the original ‘Ballet des Porcelaines’ was performed at a country house outside of Paris nearly three centuries ago and has not been seen since. I am thrilled to have worked with choreographer…
Claire Farago on ‘Italy by Way of India’ by Erin Benay
A contribution by Claire Farago Professor Emerita, University of Colorado Boulder Erin Benay’s Italy by Way of India is a groundbreaking study of complicated networks of cultural exchange in which indigenous artists actively participated. Saint Thomas the Apostle’s martyrdom (c. 52 CE) fostered the manufacture of objects that merge Christian…